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tundra

noun

ˈtən-drə

Definition of tundra

as in prairie

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country a report on the arctic tundra of Alaska and the polar bears that inhabit that vast, frozen plain

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Recent Examples of tundra Around the dozens of containers that make Toolik the US’s largest research station in the Arctic, musk ox and caribou graze on dwarf birches and fragrant labrador tea, while Arctic ground squirrels pop out of their burrows to survey the tundra. — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 By land, the trip is possible for only a few weeks each winter, when the swampy tundra freezes hard enough to construct a temporary road. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026 Up here, on the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope, the summer sun dances in an unending ellipse. — Jordan McGillis, Washington Post, 18 July 2026 Its engineers pulled crude from beneath deserts, oceans and frozen tundra. — Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for tundra

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The show features the prairie and gardens of the museum and growers of historic varieties of produce.

— Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
In place of herds of bison thundering across the prairie, there were piles of bones a story high and as much as a hundred feet long.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
The unification of the Eurasian steppes under Genghis Khan and his successors—Ögödei, Möngke, and Kublai Khan—brought many of these trade routes under a single political authority for the first time.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

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The urban-wildland interface — where human development intermingles with wild places such as scrublands, grasslands and forests — is the fastest-growing land-use type in the United States.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Swim, canoe, geocache, and bird-watch among Bastrop State Park’s mosaic of pines, oaks, shrubs, and grasslands, which are punctuated by a carpet of bluebonnets each spring.

— Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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The center of the activities was a grove, within a ring of trees, considered to be one of the oldest oak savannas in the state.

— Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
With a glorious mane of glowing purple gas and dust, the Lion Nebula sparkles on the cosmic savanna in this new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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